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In some ways phone cameras are very impressive, since CCDs are now cheap and good enough that they're no longer the bottleneck. All the computational photography stuff they do boosts their capabilities even more.

The thing that really limits them is the size and optical quality of their lenses.

Someone should post a Chinese cabbage or Jerusalem artichoke as well.

Reminds me a lot of this image:

I'm not trying to be mean when I say this, but to me your comment sounds a little bit like "I know you guys are starving but if you ever solve that issue make sure you don't go too far in the other direction. I sometimes buy food that I don't end up using, which is fairly pointless."

I wish the biggest grievance I had with my country's politics was that some of the parties are redundant. I think I'd be willing to give up a limb or two for that actually.

That's a veritasium clickbait video.

While it's true that no voting system is completely perfect that's a little bit like saying that no one's body is completely perfect, so trying to be healthy is pointless. The efficacy of voting systems can in fact be quantified and compared based on baysian regret, and some are better than others.

That's for single winner elections. Almost any proportional system is going to be better than any single winner system, with the added benefit of eliminating gerrymandering. Presumably the best proportional system available is proportional score voting, but I don't know if there's been rigorous mathematical analysis of that yet.

There are tons of patents for things that are completely trivial, incredibly vague, or totally nonsensical.

The really interesting thing about costasiella kuroshimae is that its digestive system branches and goes up into all of those 'leaves', which is how the algae makes its way there to have its chloroplasts extracted.

Most diagrams don't include the mesentery, so people just think their intestines are sitting there like a pile of rope inside their torso.

Solar panels aren't worth it for a normal EV, but supposedly the Aptera is so small, lightweight, and aerodynamic (with that teardrop shape) that they actually add a significant amount of range.

In a lot of situations I would rather cross mid block than at a corner crosswalk. The cars can't be relied on to stop anyway, and mid-block there are a lot less directions you have to worry about.

Even if the intersection is signalized given the existence of right turns on red it's still often safer to cross mid block.

Remember back when the progress bar on the nyancat video was a nyancat?

That sounds really interesting. I never thought about it that way before but I guess (dry) snow isn't very conductive.

Are there any articles about or pictures of this project out there anywhere?